- Drivers stop at the end of an exit ramp with a continuing lane, so they can sneak into farther away lanes. They are hit from behind
- Drivers turn left into a dual-left turn lane as though it were a merge lane. They get hit by turning drivers using the lane properly
- Cities are now installing back-in angle parking - Most elderly people can't do the contortions needed to see to back into a space
- Cities are putting two-way bikeways on one side of a street, causing confusion for the elderly trying to drive on that street
- Many detours are not adequately signed, so drivers using them must know the roads in the area to get back on course
- Too many small towns hold parades on major highways and expect long-distance drivers to find their ways around them
- Zoning means you can't live next door to where you work or shop
- No access without climbing stairs of curbs
- Not enough handicap spaces
- Not enough electric shopping carts
- No porticos to keep electric carts left in parking lots from rain and snow
- Handicap spaces too far from the door to walk or use a walker
- Vehicles parked in hatched spaces intended for vehicle-borne handicap ramps, elevators, and cranes
- Rough pavement between parking space and store
- Cars parked in two parking spaces or cockeyed in a space
- Pickup trucks too long for standard parking spaces
- Defective electric carts suddenly stop, saying "RETURN THE CART TO THE STORE" when the cart is inside the store
- Defective electric carts suddenly stop whenever they hit a bump (the deadman switch in the seat is malfunctioning)
- Merchandise placed for display in handicap parking spaces
- Aisles too narrow for wheelchairs and electric shopping carts
- Roof support posts placed in aisles instead of between them, blocking wheelchairs
- Product stands and kiosks block wheelchair access
- Electric carts with bad battery cells run down after a few minutes
- Products placed too high or too low for customers in wheelchairs
- The special products for use by the elderly or handicapped are placed on the bottom or top shelves where they are hard to access
- Not enough store employees to help the elderly
- Products needed for certain diseases are not stocked (e.g. salt substitutes, gluten-free versions, and PKE-safe foods)
- Shelves at the ends of aisles are so tall, or so piled with products, that customers or carts can collide with wheelchairs
- Stockers loading products on shelves, blocking wheelchair access
- Stockers put extra products belonging nearby in front of others, hiding those products
- Product-company stockers put their products in front of other brands, hiding those products
- Stockers hide empty spaces with other products so you don't notice that a product is gone
- Products are placed on shelves so picking up one product causes several other products to fall on the floor
- Too much product packaging is made that is difficult for elderly people to open
- Much of this is to prevent theft or product tampering
- Securely glued boxes tear open so they can't be reclosed, or tear down the side
- Blister cards made of transparent indestructium need a sharp tool to open them
- Many people do not have such a tool
- The tools needed to open the packaging are also packaged in indestructium
- Products in plastic bags (e.g. chips, cereal, cookies, crackers), often inside a box, are hard to open
- The bag is very hard to open correctly
- When it does open, often the bag rips down the side, spilling the contents
- Large cartons are super-stapled shut - needs super strength or a crowbar to open
- Some packages say to use scissors - often they are not available at the time
- Imperfect perforations (imperferations) do not tear open correctly
- Tear-open condiment packets either won't open or tear down the side, spilling the condiment
- Vacuum-sealed jars need much strength to be opened
- CDs and DVDs are packaged in a stupendous number of layers needing to be opened before you can use the products
All of that packaging is solid waste you have to pay to get rid of
It's as though the manufacturers want the products to be kept, but not used.
- Stores are not keeping needed products in stock - sometimes they are gone for a month or more
- Stores are not stocking special versions of products needed for certain diseases (e.g. low-salt or gluten-free)
- The store is out of most of the things you need
- Store policy is to not reorder a product until none of that product remains on the shelf
- Product managers don't realize that, for people with allergies, similar products might not be allowable substitute products
- The products the elderly need the most are not in the store - they must be ordered online
- Products that require you to go online to use them
- Products that require you to have a certain brand of cell phone
- Too many products have wireless connections - they can interfere with each other
- Too many products have Facebook, X, or Snapchat contact sites, but no email address
- Too many products that people want year-round are called "seasonal" by marketing and aren't stocked in some seasons
- Marketing calls some products "substitutes" for other products that are not, due to allergies or special diets
- Too many properties are not handicap-accessible
- Too many buildings are loaded with stairs
- Too many properties are rental properties, not owner-occupied
- Too many properties are multi-family, not single-family
- Too many single-family properties are bought up to be converted to multi-family rental housing
- Too many properties are bought up by rental cartels to drive the price of housing up
- Too many cities want all housing to be tenement-style (with stairs) because it is "more energy efficient"
- Doctors combine into cartels so they can charge higher prices
- Too many medical specialists are located in buildings that require using stairs or steep ramps to get to their offices
- Pharmaceutical firms use patent and copyright powers to "pillage" patients with very high prices for essential drugs
- Pharmaceutical firms discontinue similar older drugs so people have to pay the high prices for the newer ones
- Some nursing homes use medical providers who are out-of-network for all Medicare plans - WHY?
- There is no insurance to cover long-term (but not terminal) care needed for disabling nerve injuries taking a year to heal
- Pharmacists put little flaps on pill bottle labels when there is not enough room for all the info
- The flaps catch the other bottles in the medicine cabinet, sending them scattering off of the shelf
- Too many businesses and governments expect you to use computers to do business and make payments
- Some businesses and government agencies expect you to have and regularly use a computer
- Too many governments expect you to have a cell phone and be able to make payments with it (e.g. parking meters)
- Some businesses actually refuse to take cash for a payment, violating federal law and some religious rights